Silmariel at 2024-02-14 08:00:43+00:00 ID: kqd3p55
The Short answer to that is: Unions.
Something americans have been led to believe is like communism, but in the workplace.
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ColaMalurt at 2024-02-14 04:25:16+00:00 ID: kqd4h4w
Your salary is 160,33 kroner per hour. 23.02 dollars. That comes out to 44,287.16 dollars per year. Before taxes, of course. You can definitely live on that salary, no problem at all.
It's because of unions.
Grumphh1 at 2024-02-14 09:48:19+00:00 ID: kqd5h0l
WRONG. This guy can't read information from the internet. :D
He just looked up "mcd salaries" (in danish of course) on google and found this: "Fuldtidsansatte aflønnes med en månedsløn, hvor timelønnen findes ved at dividere med 160,33."
Then, because he is probably a neocon, or doesn't understand how salaries work (or both) he just wrote 160,33 because it looked cool - although that number has nothing to do with the actual salary.
160,33 is just the standard monthly hours worked at 5 day weeks with 7½ hour workdays. And it is the number you need to divide your monthly income by in order to get hourly wages.
Starting salary is ~132 DKK/h (~19 USD), which is minimum wage for unskilled labour for any unionized workplace. As others have said, we actually have no official minimum wage, but even non-unionized workplaces will in the end pay appr. the same as unionized.
DinnerChantel at 2024-02-14 06:43:07+00:00 ID: kqd5fsr
Yes and they are not even forced to offer it by law. The salary is also just half of it. McDonald’s is known to be an excellent workplace in Denmark with a well developped employee training program that makes mcdonalds employees attractive to other workplaces.
It’s interesting to note that when McDonalds came to Denmark in the 80s they thought they didnt have to adhere to the labor culture here and offered the same terms as in the US. A general strike was called against them resulting in their goods not being unloaded at the harbor, not transported by trucks, their stores not cleaned, etc.
Let’s just say in addition to what you asked employees today also get paid sick days (and not limited to x amount), 48 weeks paid maternity / paternity leave, paid child sick days, pension, night and weekend bonuses, etc.
Organizing works.
InfinityTuna at 2024-02-14 07:33:36+00:00 ID: kqd2ka6
You've already gotten your answer, so I'm just gonna add that we don't really have a stigma against people flipping burgers for a living over here.
If anything, in my experience at least, people - especially younger ones - will actually be a bit impressed, if you say you work at McDonalds. The pay is good, the training's known for being actually decent compared to other retail/food service industry jobs, and you have good benefits, if you can handle the job. Good prospects for promotions within the company, too, if that's your speed, and if it's not, it's a pretty positive thing to have on your resume, if you decide to seek employment elsewhere in the hospitality, food service, or customer service industries. Noone with functioning eyes and ears would question the work ethic of someone, who can deal with a rush in a McDonalds kitchen/at their counter.
Our Unions had to give McDonalds a bloody nose first, though.
Xx_bornrisky_xX at 2024-02-14 08:14:08+00:00 ID: kqd5iff
They make 19 USD an hour and pay around 32% in tax despite that low wage. So their yearly net pay is ~25,000 USD. Not exactly a Kingly existence. For reference a discounted litre of milk costs 10 DKK (5.60 USD a gallon)
elizabethergin at 2024-02-14 08:33:27+00:00 ID: kqd5vxt
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Slava_ukraini_2024 at 2024-02-14 09:10:05+00:00 ID: kqda2l8
...yes and they have free education and free healthcare...
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